Predictors of treatment response to brief behavioral treatment of insomnia (BBTI) in older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

The extant literature on predictors of treatment response to behavioral treatments for insomnia is equivocal and limited in scope. The current study examined demographic, clinical, and sleep characteristics as predictors of clinically significant treatment response to brief behavioral treatment of insomnia (BBTI) in older adults with insomnia.

Methods

Thirty-nine older adults with insomnia (67% females, mean age: 72.54 years) were randomized to BBTI treatment. Treatment outcomes were defined according to 2 criteria: (1) "response," defined as change in Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score ≥ 3 points or increase in sleep diary sleep efficiency ≥ 10%); or (2) remission, defined as absence of a clinical diagnosis of insomnia according to standard diagnos

SUBMITTER: Troxel WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3836339 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature